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If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

Ira Glass

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Ira Glass
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: March 3
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I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.
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You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.
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We're Jews, my family, and Jews break down into two distinct subcultures: book Jews and money Jews. We were money Jews.
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I just feel like there's so many movies I haven't seen that I want to see, that I would never go back to the same one. It's funny because all my friends, they have movies that they've seen over and over again.
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I didnt have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
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You just have to fight your way through.
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I can only control what I can control.
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The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.
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You just want to try a bunch of stuff, because you don't know what's going to be great.
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I think the thing that I wish somebody would ask me is just to ask about the business side of the radio show. I feel like I actually work very hard to make sure the business side of the radio show runs, and no one has any interest in how a public radio show is run. And rightly so.
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